Suspender



OC- 28, 1958 H. voGELsANG 2,857,645

SUSPENDER Filed Deo. 15, 1955 /NVENToR HEDWI G VoaELsnNer SUSPENDERHedwig Vogelsang, Wilhelmshaven, Germany Application December 15, 1955,Serial No. 553,358

Claims priority, application Germany, .annary 4, 1955 3 Claims.. (Cl.24-245) This relates to stocking suspenders of the kind wherein a buttonhaving the fabric ofthe stocking over it is pushed through a slot in aplate or flexible material to which plate the button is coupled by aflexible connector.

In one known construction, the fabric is gripped by the edges of theslot so that, when the pull on the stocking fabric relaxes, the buttondoes not tend to shift and thereby release the material. On the otherhand, if there is very considerable longitudinal pull on the fabric, oreven a little pull laterally, the slot tends to open readily and therebyallow the button to disengage and release the stocking.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improvedconstruction whereby the slot, whilst readily permitting forcing throughof the fabric covered button, will not open under any longitudinal orlateral pull likely to be exerted on the stocking fabric.

An embodiment of a stocking suspender is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing.

In this drawing:

Figure l shows a plan view of the suspender and Figure 2 shows a sectionalong the line 2-2 in Figure 1.

As is illustrated in the drawing, the suspender consists of a plate 1 ofslightly resilient but substantially unstretchable material, the edge ofwhich is reinforced by a rim 8, and wherein between the plate 1 and therim S there is disposed a loop 9 of, for example, steel wire. The platehas a longitudinal slot 4 with bendable edges and serving for thereception of a retaining button 3 suspended from a string 2 and coatedwith a layer 3a of foam rubber. The slot 4 terminates at one end in acircular aperture 5 to receive the string, and at the other end in twoshort oblique cuts 6a, 6b. For the reception of a suspender strap, theplate 1 has at one end a recess 7 enclosed by the edge reinforcements 8,9 and semi-circular in shape.

I claim:

l. A stocking suspender comprising a plate of resiliently deformablematerial, a peripheral reinforcing bead about part of said plate, saidplate being wider at one end than at the other and having its narrowerend rounded and having a semi-circular aperture defined by the bead andthe wider end of the plate adapted to receive a suspender strap, saidplate having a round hole at the center of curvature of its narrower endand a central longitudinal slit commencing at said hole and passingtowards the wider end and terminating short of the strap aperture, saidplate having two shorter divergent slits extending away from the end ofthe central longitudinal slit obliquely towards the strap aperture andterminating short of said aperture, a flexible connector secured at oneend United States Patent lCC to the plate, and a button secured at theother end of the flexible connector, said button being circular andhaving a radius slightly less than the radius of the narrower end of theplate within the reinforcing bead, and the diameter of the button beingapproximately equal to the length of the central longitudinal slit.

2. A stocking suspender comprising a plate of resiliently deformablematerial, a peripheral reinforcing bead about part of said plate, saidplate being wider at one end than at the other and having itsnarrowerend rounded and a semi-circular aperture being defined by thebead and the wider end of the plate to receive a suspender strap, saidplate having a round hole at the centre of curvature of its narrower endand a central longitudinal slit commencing at said hole and passingtowards the wider end and terminating short of the strap aperture, saidplate having two shorter divergent slits extending away from the end ofthe central longitudinal slit obliquely towards the strap aperture andterminating short of said aperture, a flexible connector secured at oneend to the plate, and a button secured at the other end of the exibleconnector, said button being circular and of a radius slightly less thanthe radius of the narrower end of the plate within the reinforcing bead,and the diameter of the button being approximately equal to the lengthof the central longitudinal slit, and a covering of spongy material onthe button.

3. A stocking suspender comprising a plate of resiliently deformablematerial, a peripheral bead about part of said plate, a loop of springmetal wire enclosed in said bead to serve as a reinforcement, said platebeing wider at one end than at the other and having its narrower endrounded and a semi-circular aperture being defined by the bead and thewider end of the plate to receive a suspender strap, said plate having around hole at the centre of curvature of its narrower end and a centrallongitudinal slit commencing at said hole and passing towards the widerend and terminating short of the strap aperture, said plate having twoshorter divergent slits extending away from the end of the centrallongitudinal slit obliquely towards the strap aperture and terminatingshort of said aperture, a flexible connector secured at one end to theplate, and a button secured at the other end of the flexible connector,said button being circular and of a radius slightly less than the radiusof the narrower end of the plate within the reinforcing bead, and thediameter of the button being approximately equal to the length of thecentral longitudinal slit.

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